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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/11] [XEN] NUMA guest tools interface

To: Dulloor <dulloor@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/11] [XEN] NUMA guest tools interface
From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:13:22 +0200
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Dulloor wrote:
The patch adds hypercall interfaces to get/set the virtual numa layout
for a domain.
I don't see the need for introducing this many new interfaces. I couldn't find a reference for the nodemap information (mfn_to_nid) to be actually used somewhere, is there any missing part or was it just for the sake of completeness? Beside that, cpu_to_node is already in physinfo, and via xc_availheap (which takes a node parameter) you can query the amount of free memory per node. I think that is all we need to know about the host's NUMA topology, but correct me if I am wrong.
(OK, the distance information is missing...)
From a design point of view I would avoid exporting so many host machine information to Dom0 unless we really need it.

Regards,
Andre.

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